Lombardo Claudio, Albanese Daniela, Belardelli Filippo, d'Alessandro Francesca, Giacomini Mauro, Rondanina Tania, Spagnoli Luigi G
IST Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy.
Tumori. 2008 Mar-Apr;94(2):147-53. doi: 10.1177/030089160809400203.
It is widely recognized that productivity gains, sustained economic growth and employment are largely determined by technological progress, innovation and human capital. The 2000 Lisbon strategy to make Europe a competitive knowledge-based economy by 2010 and, more specifically, the Barcelona objectives agreed upon in 2002 to increase R&D investment in the EU to approach 3% of GDP, ensuring that there are sufficient human resources for research, are a preliminary step in this direction. If we want to reach this goal we have to succeed in retaining the best researchers, creating the right environment where they can perform their activities and develop their careers. To this aim the Organization of European Cancer Institutes (OECI) has set up a working group on Education and Training with the mandate to encourage continuing education in cancer research and applications and to verify the feasibility to promote mobility programs inside the network and in association with industries. Until now only few OECI training programs have been launched and a full mobility program has not been developed yet due to limited budget resources. The Italian Network of Comprehensive Cancer Centers, Alleanza Contro il Cancro, has planned the launch of a mobility program awarding 70 annual fellowships over a period of 36 months. This program, which will be open to the world research community, could represent a first interaction through mobility among the members of the OECI network also involving industries. The program is a tangible approach to sustain the translational process needed for the development of an European Research Area in the field of cancer and its related biomedical disciplines, thus providing a practical answer to the 2005 renewed Lisbon Strategy.
人们普遍认识到，生产率提高、经济持续增长和就业在很大程度上取决于技术进步、创新和人力资本。2000年的里斯本战略旨在到2010年使欧洲成为具有竞争力的知识型经济体，更具体地说，2002年商定的巴塞罗那目标是将欧盟的研发投资增加到接近国内生产总值的3%，确保有足够的研究人力资源，这是朝着这个方向迈出的初步步骤。如果我们要实现这一目标，就必须成功留住最优秀的研究人员，创造一个他们能够开展活动和发展职业生涯的合适环境。为此，欧洲癌症研究所组织（OECI）成立了一个教育和培训工作组，其任务是鼓励癌症研究与应用方面的继续教育，并核实促进网络内部以及与行业联合开展流动计划的可行性。到目前为止，由于预算资源有限，OECI只启动了少数培训计划，尚未制定全面的流动计划。意大利综合癌症中心网络“抗癌联盟”已计划启动一项流动计划，在36个月内每年授予70个奖学金。该计划将向全球研究界开放，可能代表OECI网络成员之间通过流动进行的首次互动，也将涉及行业。该计划是维持癌症及其相关生物医学学科领域欧洲研究区发展所需转化过程的切实举措，从而为2005年更新的里斯本战略提供了实际回应。
